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Adele “Chasing Pavements”

Adele “Chasing Pavements”

Posted by on Feb 1, 2009 | 1 comment

A recent comment on the blog got me thinking. The comment was downplaying the songwriter’s lyrics, mentioning they sounded as if...

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Paula Cole: Poetic Meter & Rhythm

Paula Cole: Poetic Meter & Rhythm

Posted by on Jan 22, 2009 | 2 comments

William Carlos Williams once said, “measure is all.” Ezra Pound insisted in 1915 that “rhythm must have meaning.”...

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Song Plugging: What Is It?

Song Plugging: What Is It?

Posted by on Jan 21, 2009 | 0 comments

There’s a great overview of song plugging and song pluggers on BloggingMuses.com entitled “The Five Key Steps to Song...

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Poetry and Songwriting: Two Examples

Posted by on Jan 11, 2009 | 0 comments

Poetry and songwriting come from the same stock – language. Here are two examples of how you can quickly, and easily set a literal...

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